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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:37 AM
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George Bush, This is Your Life
http://www.alternet.org/election04/19827/

George Bush, This is Your Life

By Evan Derkacz, AlterNet. Posted September 9, 2004.


Will George Bush come clean about his youthful profligate ways? George W. Bush's past is finally catching up with him. Out of the morass of delays, partial truths, preemptive attacks, and doubletalk come weighty allegations from an indefatigable news service, an important public figure, advocacy organizations and a hack author – all of whom refuse to call off the search. The allegations vary in their authenticity and the depth of their political motivations, but they all add up to Bush taking heat for a past he has never had to publicly account for.
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If all this isn't too damning for the president's aides to spin their way out of, there's Bush's freewheeling Alabama days. The nephew of the Senatorial candidate Bush went to work for, Murph Archibald, worked side by side with Bush until Archibald replaced him; the reason was poor performance. According to Archibald there was also a whole lotta drinkin' – and very little working – goin' on. Speaking to NPR's All Things Considered in March of this year, Archibald commented, "in a campaign full of dedicated workers, Mr. Bush was not one of them.... Ordinarily, George would come in around noon; he would ordinarily leave around 5:30 or 6:00 in the evening."

Why so late? In a word: liquor. "I thought it was really unusual that someone in their mid-20s would initiate conversations, particularly in the context of something as serious as a U.S. senatorial campaign, by talking about their drinking the night before. I thought it unusual and, frankly, inappropriate."

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And here's a claim that ought to ruffle the feathers of the law-and-order crowd: "He told us whenever he was stopped , as soon as the law enforcement found out that he was the grandson of Prescott Bush, they would let him go. And he would always laugh about that."

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Catfight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:46 AM
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1. Bush's 15 minutes was all used up to define his lack of character on the
morning of 9/11. Bush has skated by all his life, he should have NEVER been appointed to public office, he is a disaster.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 12:23 PM
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FarLeftRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 12:30 PM
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3. Here's something about his current life
now:


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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:19 PM
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